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The sendmail of today is not the sendmail of the 90's. Sure, I'd prefer postfix, but if you're just sending local email out for system checks or whatever, send

The sendmail of today is not the sendmail of the 90's. Sure, I'd prefer postfix, but if you're just sending local email out for system checks or whatever, sendmail's okay.

ruph123 6y ago
As someone who is totally not aware of this: Why is everybody so horrified about sendmail being included in an OS?
- icedchai 6y ago
  Historically, there were a ton of vulnerabilities in sendmail. 1980’s C code, etc. Also, I will say its configuration format (“sendmail.cf”) is awful, though generally nobody works with it directly. FreeBSD uses “m4” to build the configs, for example.
  - ruph123 6y ago
    Thank you!